I had the joy of attending last week’s Together for the Gospel conference. I could (and no doubt at some point should) list a series of personal blessings from the conference, but in this post, I want to merely encourage you to engage in some of the content for yourself. Below are a few of the moments of the week I found deeply encouraging. The Testimonies This is one of several....

Resources for Evangelism What Could We Share - pdf of suggested topics and verses The Gospel and Personal Evangelism - Mark Dever What Is the Gospel - Greg Gilbert The Gospel According to Jesus - John...

I had the joy of attending last week’s Together for the Gospel conference. I could (and no doubt at some point should) list a series of personal blessings from the conference, but in this post, I want to merely encourage you to engage in some of the content for yourself. Below are a few of the moments of the week I found deeply encouraging. The Testimonies This is one of several. You should watch them all. Two Marriages from...

Resources for Evangelism What Could We Share - pdf of suggested topics and verses The Gospel and Personal Evangelism - Mark Dever What Is the Gospel - Greg Gilbert The Gospel According to Jesus - John...

Here’s a great and encouraging video of John MacArthur describing his recent opportunity to see his football coach from 50 years ago come to Christ. What do you think about MacArthur’s approach? John MacArthur – Study Video from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo. HT: Together for the...

I just finished reading Kevin DeYoung’s latest blog-post, “The Gospel Old and New.” Excellent. Well said. It fueled my heart’s passion for the heart of the gospel in light of the emerging competitors. Here’s the opening: Have you heard the New Gospel? It”™s not been codified. It”™s not owned by any one person or movement. But it is increasingly common. The New Gospel generally has four parts...

While I should be sleeping, or at a minimum, posting something edifying from the Shepherds’ Conference, I am actually going to do neither at the moment. Well, it was last night after the conference that two of our interns proposed our church look into a new means of increasing the evangelistic effectiveness and passion of our people. Their suggested tool: The Evangelism Linebacker. We plan to begin this Sunday. I...

Ed Stetzer notes that multi-ethnic is not necessarily the same thing as multi-cultural. Stetzer blazes through (wow he talks fast) issues related to being a truly multi-cultural church. Question, if you are in fact reaching the people in the community of which your local church resides (whether it is multi-ethnic or not), are you a single-cultural church and is that then bad? I’m going to watch the video again to focus on how...

This is a great video interview with Mark Dever. Thank God for him. He spoke so very clearly and kept the Gospel at the center of the conversation and did it in such a way that any offense would be the content of his message rather than his personality. Ed Stetzer did an excellent job in the interview. This being my first time to really hear Stetzer, I have a greater appreciation for him. You need to watch these two videos –...